From The Colbert Report:

The rest of America should follow Arizona's lead and replace the long arm of the law with the invisible hand of the market.

Daily Motion and Steve Martin are holding a music video contest. The rules are, you have to use Steve Martin's song "Wally on the Run" as your soundtrack, and the video must have a dog or dogs in it. I don't expect to win, but I had fun with this.

Open thread below...

Poet, author, and musician Jim Carroll passed away from a heart attack this weekend while working at his desk. Known best for the autobiographical book and film The Basketball Diaries, Carroll turned his personal struggles into art with tremendous amounts of humor and honesty, but somehow staying out of overearnest territory.

Howie Klein sums it up well at his place:

Jim led a poet's life, a beatnik's life, a free spirit's life. He died in his home in New York City on Friday. He left the world a better and a more beautiful place by his brief presence.

The Jim Carroll's band's 1980 single "People Who Died" is his best and most widely known musical work, but is merely a skinny slice of his very rich body of work over the years. Enjoy.

(The 50 State Strategy post has been moved to tomorrow)

And in case you haven't heard, Katy Abram is interviewed here by Lawrence O'Donnell (okay, I gave it a lil' Blue Gal treatment hee hee) as if she is 'aw, shucks' an average citizen who was just awakened to politics by the socialism of health care reform. She is actually a Glenn Beck 9-12 Organizer who has been involved/"interested" in politics since at least the GOP loss of the 2006 Congressional elections.

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Jon Stewart made a mashup of statements from the media that sez, Obama is toast if no health care bill is passed. And then came the toesucker. That got Jon really in the mood to describe the partisan hack.

Morris: And I don't know if he'll win anything ever again if he fails to get this past.

Stewart: Yeah, he'll probably end up like some two bit partisan troll, a shell of his former self. His outward physical appearance slowly reflecting the putrefication of his soul. A Harvey Fiersteinesque conservative minstrel rolling from town to town in a rented conversion van -- each day a carbon copy of the last. With only the changing of his three gravy-stained red speech ties...

I think you get the picture. Stewart pretty much covers the type of man Dick Morris is.

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Stephen Colbert gives NBC's Chuck Todd a political beating...errrr...I mean hair pulling over Todd's idiotic response to Glenn Greenwald's word boarding of his Villager argument that an investigation of the Bush administration over prisoner abuse treatment would turn into a beltway weenie food fight and America couldn't handle it...

Greenwald: Isn't the best thing to do..to say to a prosecutor, "Were crimes committed...have this be treated like every other accusation of crime?"

Todd: Glenn, in a perfect world, yes. If you could guarantee me that we could keep this debate off of television...

Todd is a TV reporter, but wants to keep an investigation off of TV. I mean, this is the state of our media, folks. It just might be enlightening. Hey, just keep running the Gates/Obama story over and over again. That's what America wants. Not truth about torture or prisoner abuses...

What if everyone on the Senate Judiciary Committee took a Jack Nicholson pill?

Open Thread below...

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(I was going to write this last week, but I had a family emergency).

Why does Rep. John Boehner hate the DMV and postal workers so much? Jon Stewart catches him attacking them in his effort to smear any health care reform. it starts at the 3:15 mark of the video.

Boehner: If you like going to the DMV and think they do a great job or you like going to the post office and think it's the most efficient thing you've run into to then you'll love the government run health care system.

Stewart: If you like the military protecting the country or doctors helping veterans you'll love this new government plan. By the way, why are you bagging on the post office. For forty four cents, someone comes to your house, picks up some piece of crap you wrote and takes it to Wyoming on a plane, but give me another talking point.

Gee, I never waited an hour in a doctor's office, sifting through two year old magazines just to get him to spend five minutes with me. That's the ticket. What an efficient system our current health care system is.

If I worked at the DMV or for the Post Office I'd put his picture up on the wall and say, "If we're so bad, You're Not Welcome here," and then refuse to service him. Really, what a fool and how demeaning to all the people that work there. If you work for the DMV or post office, give a shout out to Boehner's office.

Representative John Boehner - 8th District Residents - Call Us Toll Free - 1-800-582-1001

202-225-6205

You can also ask the Friends of John Boehner if they like to use the Post Office or the DMV too:

Phone 513-779-8435
800-228-8551 - Toll Free

too funny. From Putnam Pig, lyrics at the Youtube page. Open thread below.

From my buddy J.C. Duffy:

Somewhere, Rudyard Kipling is spinning in his grave.

Via my good friend J.C. "Fusco Brothers" Duffy, cartoonist extraordinaire:

I can't even describe the sheer awesomeness of this site where pieces of coal are singing Christmas carols about clean coal! And you get to put hats on them, and scarves - you'll love it, too. (Thanks to Dr. S. from Redsoxville.)

Best McCain Analogy Evah...

From the comments on the Just Because McCain Says He’s a “Maverick” Doesn’t Make It So post:

fiver Says :

A high school friend of mine had an old Maverick. It had lots of miles and was pretty run down. It didn't always start in the winter, and it overheated pretty easily if you drove it to far. On the highway it generally pulled to the right, but it could change direction in an instant - almost so fast you couldn't remember the original direction.

Of course it used a ton of gas, burnt oil and created clouds of smoke. But every time my buddy got pulled over, he'd tell the cops the car had been towed and spent a long time in the pound. For some reason, that excuse seemed to work all the time…

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

From a segment called: "A Good Nights Sleep,"

Is this Andy's Love mask?   Andrew Sullivan demonstrates a machine that helps with sleep Apnea.

Andrew, please stop giving us material.

We know the machine really helps.

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